BANGALORE: The wait is finally over for the engineering and medical seat aspirants in the State. Kick-starting the process, the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) will conduct its Undergraduate Entrance Test (UGET) in 73 Bangalore centres and 32 centres outside the city on Sunday.

A total of 67,012 candidates are expected to appear for the COMEDK test, which will decide who gets into the medical, dental and engineering colleges attached to the consortium.

On offer are 888 medical, 776 dental and 9,063 engineering seats, all under the management quota.

On Sunday, the Physics and Chemistry examinations will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

The Biology paper will be from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Mathematics examination is scheduled to be held between 3.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m.

Of the total registered candidates, 39,376 will appear only for the physics, chemistry and mathematics examinations, scores of which will decide the engineering ranks.

Only 9,442 candidates will take all the four papers to stand a chance in both engineering and medical streams.

While 22,192 candidates are from Karnataka, 44,820 are from outside the State. In all, the COMEDK UGET will have 46,302 male candidates and 20,710 female candidates.

COMEDK has asked all the candidates to carry the TAT number and original date of birth and ID proof certificates, and use only black or blue ballpoint pens to mark the correct answers.

Candidates found carrying any of the following articles will not be allowed into the testing space: dictionaries and other reference material; whiteners; extra papers, chits, notebooks/pads, textbooks/reference manual books; writing instruments other than pens and pencils; editing devices such as spelling or grammar checkers; graphic organisers; thesauruses and encyclopaedias; mobile phones and pagers; digital diaries/PDAs.

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